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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 220 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Don’t trust anyone who unironically uses the term ‘fake news’.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

I wouldn't say that, these people that use fake news are the ones that push fake news. Every accusation is a confession, we shouldn't get into the habit of reflexively rejecting everything monied interests project onto others unfairly. It's a big problem, and it leads to a loss of credibility to not recognize the harms in something, or the wrongdoing, because it's used cynically by a group trying to make it worse.

Ie, voting. The ones trying to cheat are accusing the ones not cheating of cheating. Do we defend all elections as fair because they projected that onto us, when they are cheating? According to the democratic establishment, yes. We are doomed to the republic being dead already and replaced with an unthinkable autocracy run by the worst people in the country if we continue to follow the lead of that establishment of democrats in being the opposition in fact. But I digress there.

We should turn their words and projections against them, with their own terms, with our own populists, real populists that channel anger towards it's source, rather than the fake populism of the right that misdirects it. It's the only way in fact, we could take a large part of the republican base, enough to overcome the cheating the republicans are planning on doing, in the succession fight, with a popular platform, that is aggressive, and turns their projections back on them, fake news, voter fraud, captured federal agencies, you name it.

Idk, I use fake news to describe like, AI made "medical" videos talking about how MRI is actually bad for you and people older than 50 shouldn't do it. Maybe misinformation is a better term?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was about to say, where did I hear that before... 🤔

[–] XLE@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago

I'm sure Brendan Eich has a normal vocabulary when he isn't talking about "glowies" or "h8ers"... Or when he's talking like Sephiroth